Time to seriously boycott Marie Claire. Seriously.

I guess they were just added. . .but the author has a bunch of apologies after the article now. Evidently she was anorexic at one point and has some serious body hatred issues. I agree the article was out of line and insensitive. . .and what editor let that through!?!

I'm fat, have always been fat and probably always will be.

My problem with the whole "fat epidemic" is that they keep changing the rules.

When I was a teen the ideal was the perfect size 10. These days 10 is considered a plus size.

Kill yourself to be a size 10 only to find out the new ideal is size 0

That was really, really awful of her, but I wonder can we blame her? She did say some hurtful things in there that she shouldn't have said, but the idea that seeing morbidly obese people make out on TV making her uncomfortable isn't all that strange to me. It's the culture Hollywood creates, and like most of us, the author of the blog is a part of it.
I think it's really not that different from seeing a disabled person making out, like someone who suffered burn damage to their face or someone who is missing a lip or whatever. I am sure all those scenes would make people uncomfortable. Not because they don't think it's normal or good for people who suffer from these conditions to be affectionate, but because we are soo used to seeing beautiful people make out on TV that we don't think twice about it, and seeing anything different freaks us out because it's not what we're used to.
In my spanish film class, where all of us in the class are Americans, and we watch foreign films, we are all cringing every time there is a make out scene, because foreign films are not like hollywood films where they sugar coat everything, and there are make out scenes and sex scenes with really, really ugly people! So yea our reactions are not very nice, but our professor keeps reminding us that it's only because we are used to hollywood films that we react that way, if we had not grown up watching those movies we would think all this is normal!

I've been struggling with my weight for some time now. My mom was obese and when I was in high school I was around 120lbs and I thought I was the fattest person on earth....(I was severely mentally and physically abused by both of my parents) boy do I wish I could go back to that weight. I'm around 225 now and that article seriously hurt my feelings and made me want to cry. I don't understand how people can be so mean and heartless.

She loaded up her own gun to shoot herself by writing that.

How to send your career down the pan with the wrong choise of words

IF she had simply said that watching overweight people make out on TV made her uncomfortable, then to explore that feeling as it relates to culture and her own body issues, that would have been interesting and not overly offensive. But then she goes into a more "ewww, fat people are icky and they should all get skinny like me--it's easy!" tack, and that's where it gets offensive.

That article should have never been published.

This was my favorite part....

Everyone is entitled to an opinion... and mine is that this person went way over the line. It's one thing to say seeing overweight people making out on TV makes you uncomfortable... but to compare obese people with a stumbling drunk and a passed out heroine addict? That's a way too far. You could feel the hate radiating off of the words. This author's history of anorexia is no excuse to me. Hate is hate and this person is full of it.

Oh, I hardly think having had anorexia is any kind of excuse. But usually someone with anorexia really hates her body, and if she hates her own body, it's no surprise that she would hate other peoples' bodies as well. So that would explain her writing that. What isn't explained is how the editor allowed that to be published! That was an extremely bad editorial decision.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

I have had an eating disorder for 20 years--including, anorexia. However, in no way, would I allow my eating disorder to be used as an excuse to degrade other people with similar issues. Her anorexia may be a reason but in no way is it an excuse to berate other people due to her own poor self-esteem.

Spot-on
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I've had a subscription to Marie Claire for several years now. I was very disappointed to hear about the article. I took the time to write a letter to the company about it. I hope others who subscribed or read the article and were outraged enough to take the time to complaine to the company as well.

I'm fat. In fact I'm what is considered "morbidly obese". However, I find the word "obese" and "morbidly" to be offensive and I would prefer to be just called 'Fat!"

Anyway, there will always be someone out there who finds offense to something, no matter what.

I have no control over what people think or say or feel. But I can control how I think, what I say and how I feel.

No one is responsible for how I feel, other than myself.

If she is grossed out by fat people, who am I to say she is wrong to feel that way, or wrong to speak it out loud? She's entitled to her feelings and opinions.

I choose to turn a blind eye to people like that. What she thinks about me being fat doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself. And I think I'm a pretty darn good person.

EDIT: Personally I find it just plain tacky to see anyone making out in public. A quick kiss, or hand holding.... a hug.... fine. But if you want to get into heavy kissing and such, go do it somewhere private. I don't need to see your hormones raging! And that is regardless of their gender or physical appearance.

I found her comments very offensive. Had she said it was disgusting for say, American Indians to kiss on television, she would have probably made national headlines. (Yeah, I'm part Indian.) Discrimination is discrimination. The apology was ridiculous. But the magazine is really at fault for their lack of editing.

Well one good thing came of that article, I started working out every day.

This is for the author of the article:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

I made a mistake in my previous post...apparently this did make national news. I was telling my mom about it and she'd heard about the article on one of the news networks. I just don't watch a great deal of television (beyond a few reality shows) and wasn't aware. My apologies. I'm glad that it has drawn media attention. I hate cruelty of any sort.

Ummmmm----one question---how did that get past the editor?

Any time someone says those kinds of things they should be reminded that being mean spirited does come back to that one who says things like that.

I noticed the "I'm sorry, I'm sorry---" wagon is in full swing there---maybe she will learn something from it?